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Cool Water by Dianne Warren6/24/2023 The shirt symbolizes the loss of Astrid, who used to do his laundry. Instead of presenting a full-colour portrait of a character, I might pick out one object of clothing that symbolizes the character, or says something about that character’s life.įor example, when Lee gets out of bed in his first chapter he grabs a wrinkled shirt out of the laundry basket. There’s always an unless.įor the most part, what a character looks like – blond hair, dark hair, short, tall – doesn’t matter to me, unless the character is seen through the eyes of another character, in which case the interpretation has more to do with the looker than the one being looked at. unless of course what is in the drawer is part of the premise. By the time you finish writing a book you might know what your characters keep hidden in their dresser drawers, but you can’t create a character by deciding this before you start. I do none of this and I venture to guess that most fiction writers do not. Certain how-to books tell you to make lists of character traits and what people wear and how they talk and what kind of childhood they had. "When I teach writing, one of the most common questions I get is about character development. The characters in Cool Water stayed with long after turning the last page. I am absolutely thrilled to welcome Dianne Warren as my guest blogger today! If you stopped by yesterday, you read my review of her latest book - Cool Water.
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